Police in South Carolina say that a McDonald's worker spit in two customers' cups
of iced tea after they returned them because they weren't sweet enough.
A video shows the employee,19-year-old Marvin Washington Jr., leaning
over the open cups before giving them back. The fast food chain patrons
claim they discovered phlegm in the drinks when they removed their tops.
He was arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious tampering with
food.
Eating out can be an exercise in suspended disbelief. Wide eyed, we
assume the food is fresh and wholesome and that workers have followed
the "employees must wash hands" decree posted in the bathroom.
Nevertheless, the McDonald's incident is so sickening because it
actually bears out the urban legend that a disdainful waiter can and
will contaminate your food if you tick him off.
Chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain's bestseller, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,
exposed the grungy side of the culinary world over a decade ago. Not
only is the book a rollicking memoir about coming of age in the 1970s
and 80s, it's a veritable primer for how not to get food poisoning on
date night. Bourdain rudely threw open the kitchen doors and exposed
restaurants' dirty little tricks such as filtering cigarette ash out of
used butter to make a sauce and serving old beef to the customers who
ordered it well done.
It continues-green chicken at KFC, etc.
One of the worst I saw was when my(?) fry cook used his spatula to unclog the floor drain and then returned it to the grill. Never washing it.
My first manager at Mickey D's circa 1968 was a young 20 year old recently transplanted from California. He had worked at a pizza restaurant prior to moving to Georgia, and said the cooks would give the pizza extra toppings by picking their noses. Urban myth? Who knows!
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